Cloudy and around 25C today.
Tuesday is laundry day, so while Lyn was busy with that I went outside to do some work on the awning. In Texas it was too windy to have the awning out, but the wind here has been pretty calm for the last few days. We started off with the awning out only when we were around during the day time, but we’d retract it at night and when we were away (such an inconvenience having to hit a switch to roll it in!!).
Well this morning I figured the wind was behaving well enough to leave the awning out all the time. In this situation I screw a couple of anchor pegs into the ground and loop a strap over the two corners of the awning to stop it from flapping around too much if the wind gets up. In addition I put out some wind ornaments, including the beer can bi-plane, which hang from the awning roller. About an hour later the wind starts to gust fairly strongly, and someone came around advising that a high wind advisory has just been issued. Thank you Mr. Murphy. The awning is once again retracted.
This afternoon was Lyn’s craft time, so I spent a bit of time researching our route home. As we won’t have the trailer with us we are able to take a more touristy route rather than the freeways, so the initial plan is to take the freeways up to the start of the Blue Ridge Mountain Parkway and follow it for 400+ miles into Virginia.